#newspapers scan

[katabay]

this was a kind of test comic I did months ago that's been sitting my my drafts! and now I'm freeing it

the story (historical fiction, unrestrained violence against occupation forces, cultural trauma-horror, gritty folk heroes, some real fucked up basements) requires a lot of pretty heavy duty research that's probably gonna take awhile to finish doing, but it also is pretty action heavy. hopefully. in my heart, it's action heavy, which is also a whole visual language to learn and style to figure out and I've mostly been a melodrama genre kind of artist.

this one was drawn pretty early in the journey! lots of scribbling while I tried to pin down the vibe I was imagining and also just running through every monoline pen I've ever downloaded to see what clicked lmao

[acekindaneat]

From the work "If At First You Don't Succeed, Find A Loophole" by MalkyTop (@sleepdepravity) on ao3!!!!

(even with my busy schedule .. i had to draw today's update, it drove me insane)

[baejax-the-great]

When I was a kid, my dad used to cut out newspaper articles of topics he thought pertained to my interests (neuroscience and China mostly) and then he would mail them to me with no note. Every once in a while I would receive an envelope with an assortment of newspaper clippings from the five newspapers he reads a day.

And as I sit here sending star trek memes and mourning dove pics to friend 1, and knitting memes and terrible puns to friend 2, and sexy radishes to friend 3, never with any explanation or even an expectation of acknowledgement of receipt, I have to reckon with some hard truths about the person I have grown into and how it relates to my parenting.

[fuckyeahmeikokaji]

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子)

Scanned from Asahi Shinbun (朝日新聞) newspaper, January 1, 2024

[karmikiart]

the solitary brethren of ephrata

[taiso]

yellow magic orchestra, clipped from the cover of the july 1982 issue of soundall magazine!

[savvylittlecoxswain]

“Washington Huskies Owe Title to Syracuse ... Claim of Foul Is Never Pressed”

Syracuse Herald (Syracuse, New York)

Syracuse University’s crew was a victim of an emergency measure by Washington in the 1936 regatta at Poughkeepsie, which might have brought about disqualification of the Huskies, as race winners, if Syracuse had pressed a claim of foul.

The New Yorker tells the story in a tribute to Robert G. "Bob" Moch, Washington coxswain.

…

"He told us the story of how Syracuse helped Washington win the Poughkeepsie race, thus putting Washington in fine fettle for the Olympic trials. Seems that in the No.7 lane at Poughkeepsie there is an eddy along about the three-mile mark, created by a projecting abutment of a bridge. Ulbrickson, the Washington coach, was horrified when his crew drew the seventh lane, and instructed Moch to steer over into the sixta lane, which was Syracuse's, and avold the eddy. Moch gradually began inching over, and before the bridge was reached was right in Syracuse's lage, the Syracuse oars almost ticking Washington's.”

"The Syracuse coxswain bawled at Moch to get over, and so did the referee, but Washington just kept on going, and finally pulled ahead of Syracuse. They went under the bridge in Syracuse's lane, and won the race by a length. 'If you get in that eddy you lose two or three lengths sure, Moch told us. That means we'd have lost the race.' The Syracuse coxswain was all for reporting these goings-on and claiming a foul, but the Syracuse stroke—‘a fine fellow,’ Moch says earnestly—good-naturedly persuaded him not to.”

"So now all the Washingtons think the Syracusans are great."

[basmathgirl]

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[onemorecupofcoffee]

“force behind pink floyd” syd barrett obituary - july 12, 2006

[smashcut]

Movie times and advertisements from the August 17, 1978 edition of The Republican Journal in Belfast, Maine.

[brodydalle-archive]

[hyperthinks]

i have completely on accident managed to substitute like 90% of my tumblr time this last week with reading online archives of daily newspaper comic strips. hi everybody 👋

[mikasa3]

[exdeputysonso]

The Mound Builders (1976) Press Photo

[fuckyeahmeikokaji]

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子)

Scanned from La Seine (ラ・セーヌ), July 1987.

[cybereucharist]

LIFE IN THE CITY